Author Profile

Robert B. Marcus Jr.

Robert B. Marcus Jr. has a bachelor’s degree in physics and a doctorate in medicine. As a practicing oncologist, he has been a Professor at two major medical schools, and is listed in U.S. News and World Reports Best Doctors in America, as well as Castle Connolly's Top Cancer Doctors and Castle Connolly's Top Doctors in America. He has been selling science fiction stories since he was in college, when he made a sale to Analog Science Fiction/Fact. Since then he has published a number of other stories and two novels, with two forthcoming novels, one science fiction novel The House of the Last Man on Earth and one political thriller Yesterday's Tears, the sequel to The Far Side of Silence. He is a lifetime active member of Science Fiction Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers.